The University of Virginia community came together on Monday, November 13, to remember the lives of D’Sean Perry, Devin Chandler, and Lavel Davis Jr. Throughout the day, the one-year anniversary of the shooting that killed the three football players and injured two other students, a range of memorials were held around Grounds, including a moment […]
The University of Virginia community came together on Monday, November 13, to remember the lives of D’Sean Perry, Devin Chandler, and Lavel Davis Jr. Throughout the day, the one-year anniversary of the shooting that killed the three football players and injured two other students, a range of memorials were held around Grounds, including a moment […]
It’s a ghoulish good time at The Great Rotumpkin, a spooky celebration that transforms the outside of the Rotunda into a massive movie screen. Multimedia artist Jeff Dobrow incorporates the iconic building’s architecture into a variety of spooky, scary pop-up projections that are sure to send shivers down your spine. Eerie music accompanies the visceral […]
Tensions are high across the United States over the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The complex and rapidly developing situation has resulted in accusations of atrocities by both sides, and steadily worsening conditions for those in Gaza. Locally, controversy erupted when the University of Virginia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine put out a […]
After a University of Virginia student escaped an attempted abduction on October 4, law enforcement officials, community members, and students are reevaluating safety on and around Grounds. Charlottesville Police Department received a call about an incident near the intersection of Cabell and Grady avenues at approximately 9:40pm on October 4. At the scene, officers […]
During a July 28 media event ahead of the fall football camp, University of Virginia running back Mike Hollins talked about how he’s getting ready for the season physically, emotionally, and mentally. “Training wise, it’s been hot, fun. I see my body returning to where I used to be,” said Hollins, who was injured during […]
The Supreme Court shook the academic world June 29 when it ruled that the use of affirmative action at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina was unconstitutional. The court was starkly split along ideological lines in both cases. Students at the University of Virginia who support race-conscious admissions policies had long anticipated the […]
The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has honored University of Virginia tennis player Natasha Subhash with the national Arthur Ashe Jr. Leadership and Sportsmanship Award. “It was definitely such a huge honor,” says Subhash about receiving the award. “Arthur Ashe is someone that I grew up looking up to and was extremely inspired by. He’s such a […]
A baseball catcher has a dangerous job. There are the usual risks, like knee strain and getting hit by foul balls, but junior Kyle Teel had something new to worry about on Sunday, June 11. If the University of Virginia won game three of the best-of-three Super Regional against Duke, the team would celebrate qualifying […]
Come May, there is an annual exodus from Charlottesville of the 23,721 undergrad and grad students who are enrolled at UVA. Some stragglers remain, but summer in the city, especially on the Corner, is quiet in comparison to the fall, winter, and early spring. The emptiness of University Avenue highlights the complex relationship between the […]
Nursing students in the University of Virginia’s Class of 2023 have lived through the full breadth of the COVID-19 pandemic—from the first cases being detected overseas in 2019 to the end of the federal public health emergency in May. It’s been a long and rugged road for the entire world, but the nursing students experienced […]